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Find out what you must do before you get a pet pig, how to register as a keeper and get a pig walking licence and what you can feed pet pigs.
What you must do to bring your pet to the UK from Ukraine if you are seeking refuge.
Current issues relating to imports and exports of animals and animal products.
Competent authorities of exporting countries should use the relevant model health certificate as a template to create a version exporters can apply for to export petfood to Great Britain, the Channel Islands or Isle of Man.
Apply for a certificate to use a CITES-listed specimen for commercial purposes.
What you must do to protect the welfare of animals during transport.
How to register to keep captive schedule 4 birds, when to ring them and when to microchip them.
Use this form to apply for a temporary land association (TLA) or temporary county parish holding (tCPH) number. This is needed when you temporarily keep livestock on someone else's land.
Apply for a permit to import, export or re-export a CITES-listed specimen in or out of the UK.
Use this service to register an ivory item or apply for an exemption certificate to deal in ivory.
When your pet must go in quarantine, how to book a pet carrier and quarantine premises, and how to get your pet released from quarantine.
Find notifiable exotic animal disease cases and control zone declarations for England.
Find out what documents you need, and records you must keep, to meet animal welfare in transport requirements.
Check if you need a certificate to export or move food, drink and agricultural products or export animal feed or pet food.
Guidance on how to import and export plants and plant products to and from the UK.
What livestock keepers must do when they intend to use someone else's land or buildings temporarily.
Apply online to export cats to China.
Signs that may suggest rabies in bats, what to do if you spot them and measures to prevent exposing yourself to the disease.
Apply online to export cats or dogs to Turkey.
Information on practices and procedures covered under the Plant Varieties Act 1997, the Plant Breeders’ Rights Regulations 1998 and the Seeds Regulations 2001.
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